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    Polish national charged in alien smuggling operation

    Polish national charged in alien smuggling operation
    By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune

    Last update: August 21, 2008 - 5:27 PM

    Officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office have charged a Polish national with attempting to smuggle two illegal immigrants into the United States.

    Marek Jerzy Struzik was charged Wednesday with bringing two aliens into the country at a point other than a designated point of entry, according to a complaint in Federal Court in Minneapolis.

    The complaint states that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested two men, one from Poland and one from Slovakia, after they had walked across the Pigeon River near Grand Marais, Minn. on Aug. 1. The men told agents that Struzik had walked across with them, then returned to the Canadian side to retrieve his vehicle. The plan was for Struzik to pick up the men in Grand Portage State Park.

    Struzik, 31, was arrested when he legally entered the United States at the Grand Marais border crossing.

    The complaint states that Struzik was offered $2,500 by a man in Poland to smuggle two people into the United States. Struzik arrived in Duluth on July 25 and took a bus to Thunder Bay, Ontario. From there he flew to Toronto, picked up the two men and drove them back to Thunder Bay. There he received instructions on how to sneak the men across the northern Minnesota border, the complaint said.

    If convicted, Struzik faces a maximum of 10 years in jail.



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    Polish man pleads guilty to helping two cross border
    September 11, 2008

    A 31-year-old Polish man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to helping to smuggle two other Eastern European men into the country.

    Marek Jerzy Struzik admitted he helped the men enter Minnesota by crossing the Pigeon River near Grand Portage. He had been hired to smuggle the men -- a Pole and a Slovak -- into the country by someone who approached him in Poland and paid for Struzik to fly to New York City, and then to Duluth, investigators said.

    In all, Struzik was paid $2,500 for his efforts.

    Struzik picked up the men in Canada and showed them where to cross the river. Struzik then waited for them in the parking lot at Grand Portage State Park, just a few hundred yards from the official border crossing.

    But the would-be immigrants were arrested by Border Patrol agents in the parking lot of a store after leaving the difficult Middle Falls Trail about a half-mile short of the state park parking lot. Struzik was arrested a short time later. U.S. District Judge David Doty said he will sentence Struzik at a later date.

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